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Coal-Mining. By Robert Peel, (Mackie and Son. 3s.)—First published in

1893, has reached a sixteenth edition. The author has continued to accommodate it to changes which have taken place in the industry. The proportion of fatal accidents has diminished, we see, from 1 in 238 persons employed when the Act of 1850 came into force to 1 in 156, the return for the year 1908. The total number of persons employed is nearly a million. More than half the accidents are caused by falls of ground.